so this how it goes in real life and not in the movies
there are archaeologists who are poc. (this is the same reason why the popular āall historians are homophobic and erase queer historyā rhetoric is not only untrue, but also harmful. see, some of us are queer. we donāt contribute to our own erasure. same with poc)
secondly, i donāt get why people seem to think that archaeology is about white people hopping on a plane to dig some graves in africa/asia/south america. like, thatās not how it works at all. sites in europe are excavated just the same as they are in everywhere else in the world. itās regulated by laws of the local government everywhere. most of the archaeologists working in a country are usually from that country too (in fact, most of us work in our home countries all our lives). a foreign team needs special permissions to excavate somewhere and then too, they are usually aided and supervised by their local collegues. and even if an excavation is carried out by a foreign team, artifacts stay in their country of origin, not taken to some european museum (this isnāt the first half of the last century anymore). only a small amount of samples can be taken - with special permission, yeah i hope you guessed - to laboratories, for scientific analysis.
and this is something i noticed that a lot of people donāt know, but the biggest chunk of archaeological work happens to preserve and save a site that would otherwise be destroyed by modern construction works. excavations that only have a purely scientific goal (i.e. they are not threatened sites) are actually the minority.
see, archaeologists spend years studying, and like, we donāt do it just to find some treasure and steal it from the culture and country it belongs to. hearing people reduce a whole scientific field to that is just so tiring if iām really honest
i know itās hard to recognize what archaeology contributes to society, because itās not something tangible, like an invention of a medicine or a new technology or something like that, something corporations can sell and you can buy and use, butā¦ you know, everything we have and everything we are came from somewhere. we just want to understand it and share that understanding with others. so just, let us do our job please
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